AP Literature Terms 1 Flashcards

4747492365	allegory	A story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. -interaction meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth. EX: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", by C.S. Lewis, is a religious allegory with Aslan as Christ and Edmund as Judas. EX:"Animal Farm", by George Orwell, is an allegory that describes the overthrow of the last Russian Tsar (Nicholas II).	0
4747492366	alliteration	The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words. EX: "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" EX: "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers."	1
4747492804	allusion	Indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar (literary text, plays, songs, historical events) EX:•"Don't act like a Romeo in front of her." - Romeo and Juliet EX: "You are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders." -Atlas, mythology	2
4747492805	ambiguity	A word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning OR the meaning is uncertain EX: I have never tasted a cake quite like that one before! --Was the cake good or bad? EX: The bark was painful. -- dog's bark or tree bark?	3
4747492806	analogy	comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables. -author argues that the relationship between the first pair of variables is the same as the relationship between the second pair of variables. -Similes and metaphors are sometimes also analogies. EX: "America is to the world as the hippo is to the jungle." EX: Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.	4
4747493101	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. -The given pronoun in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences. EX: Frankenstein was a good novel; I enjoyed it. --it EX: I like reading because it makes me relax. --it	5
4747493102	antithesis	Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure. EX: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" EX: "Speech is silver, but silence is gold."	6
4747493103	aphorism	terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle. -can be a memorable summation of the author's point. EX: "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones"-William Faulkner EX: "The simplest questions are the hardest to answer." - Northrop Frye	7
4747493606	apostrophe (not grammar)	When a writer or a speaker detaches himself ( or herself)from reality and addresses an imaginary character in his (or her) speech. EX: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" - speaking to a star EX: "Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me" - Frankenstein (Mary Shelly)	8
4747493607	atmosphere	A type of feelings that readers get from a narrative based on details such as settings, background, objects and foreshadowing, etc. EX: The introduction to 1984 (George Orwell) establishes a gloomy rather dreary atmosphere. EX: Charles Dickens, in "A Tale of Two Cities", creates an important atmosphere whenever a major event occurs in a plot, such as we see ghostly mood of messenger's entrance in Dover mail indicates the things of future.	9